Despite lengthy discussions with Italian authorities and efforts by the Italian Coastguards, an MSF rescue ship was not authorised to disembark 700 migrants in Sicily due to a lack of capacity in the reception system.

One year after Israel’s ‘Operation Protective Edge’ targeted the Gaza Strip for 51 days in July and August 2014, nothing has changed. It was the deadliest and most destructive of Israel’s three wars on Gaza since 2008. The strip remains almost completely sealed off by a blockade imposed by Israel.

During the last week, the number of migrants and refugees stranded in the forests around the village of Idomeni on the border between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia has increased tenfold.

Over 200 people are currently incarcerated in Malawi prisons because of their status as undocumented migrants. Most were on their way to South Africa, hoping to flee harsh poverty and make a better life there.

In the left corner of the modest maternity ward of Dolo Ado health centre, MSF midwife Aisha Akello has an emotional discussion with a woman sitting on a hospital bed. Unlike the rest of the women lying next to their new born babies, Rabiya Osman, 23, is all by herself...

Opinion and Debate: Jason Cone examines the invisible line that aid agencies, including MSF, struggle with in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: the line between complicity with Israel's occupation and a refusal not to ignore its consequences.